Isa Rashidi

Isa Rashidi (1969-) was a Nigerian Salafist imam.

Biography
Isa Rashidi was born in Malumfashi, Katsina State, Nigeria in 1969 to a Sunni Muslim Hausa family. Rashidi became a fundamentalist cleric, preaching a return to the traditionalist old ways of Islam and the implementation of sharia law across Nigeria. In 2004, the government decided not to interfere with his teachings, allowing for Salafism to spread across the state.